What is meant by a rape shield law

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1. What is meant by a "rape shield law"? What, if any, exceptions should be written into such a law?

2. Jonathan, intent on achieving sexual intercourse by force, physically removes his girlfriend against her will from the living room of his apartment to an upstairs bedroom of his neighbor's vacant home. He locks the door over her protest and forces her to submit to sexual intercourse. With what crime or crimes would the state likely charge Jonathan? Explain the elements of each.

3. Anna is a teacher at a high school. She has sexual relations with a boy who is a student at that school, but who is not in one of her classes. The boy's age actually places him under the age of consent in their state.

The issue of whether the young man consented to sex would be most relevant if the charges against the teacher included which of these?

statutory rape
false imprisonment
rape
stalking

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